Sony Vaio Flip is close, but it's got terrible battery life, about half of what you could expect from a macbook air. Instead of a Wacom digizier, it's got an N-Trig, which might be close enough depending on what you want to do with it.

I swear, last time I looked at their site (less than a year ago) they had only a very select few items that were available to purchase online, and that most of the site was simply a catalog for the items you could buy in their stores.

I find it funny that when you look at the comments on the Blink articles, there are tons of people upset about Google creating yet another rendering engine, and they're worried about standards compliance issues and having another target to design for.

And then you read the comments in the Opera-switching-to-Blink articles, and everyone is upset about losing diversity in the web ecosystem.

Are these two different groups of people commenting, or is it just one big group of whiners?

Blingy might not be the right word, but I am personally not a fan of glossy/shiny/textured interfaces. For example, I much prefer the style of Android's 4.x Holo interface design over iOS. I think the design for Outlook.com is a HUGE improvement over Hotmail.com, and would like to have seen Microsoft push the Windows UI in the same direction.

I don't like it when interface elements are noisy and cluttered and compete for attention with the content I'm looking for. I don't like lots of high color icons and small text; I prefer nice typography with a little bit of breathing room.

The Desktop in Windows 8 looks just fine once you get past Metro. It's less blingy than Windows 7, although there is still a lot of room for improvement. I have seen some minimal UI concepts that I think are quite attractive:http://dribbble.com/shots/576250-Windows-UI-Concept

4: at the very least, stop cutting the corners off all of the phone designs. It seems like a poor attempt at looking futuristic, but it's just awful. Ugly ugly crap. Go back to the 2011 phone designs if necessary. The Droid X wasn't this ugly.

suraj.sun writes: At the SF MusicTech Summit, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation BitTorrent Live( http://live.bittorrent.com/ ). BitTorrent Live lets any content owner or publisher stream video to millions of people at good quality and with just a few seconds of latencyfor free or cheap. Sports, news events, simulcast TV shows, education, video conferencing, or uncensored war zone broadcasts — this technology will power the future of video.

“My goal is to kill off television” Cohen said during the SF MusicTech demo session I hosted. Afterwards he explained to me in rhyme, “Television’s physical infrastructure is inevitably going to go away, but TV as a mode of content consumption is here to stay.” Essentially, people love what they see on television, but want it accessible from the web.